PEN American and PEN Mexico Mark Day of the Dead

  

        

            

             

            November 2, 2011            | La Palapa Restaurant | New York City<br />

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            Learn more about the Day of the Dead campaign at the PEN International web site.<br />

            

        

    

 

 

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Nine journalists and writers have been murdered in Mexico this year, four of them women. As part of PEN&rsquo;s ongoing advocacy to protect writers and journalists in that country, on November 2, Mexico&rsquo;s D&iacute;a de los Muertos, PEN centers around the world carried out activities to remember the 35 journalists and writers who have been killed and the eight who have disappeared in the last five years.<br />

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PEN Members join the PEN American Center and PEN Mexico at a candle lighting celebration to inaugurate an altar commemorating our Mexican colleagues.</p>

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